Keir RADNEDGE
Saudi-Qatar row shows no sign of ending
The Club World Cup only has another 14 months to run – December this year and December next year – before it heads the way of the Confederations Cup. It will, however, be succeeded in time by Gianni Infantino’s revamp. With 24 teams. Then 32. Then 36…
Originally the idea of a world club cup was proposed by CONMEBOL.
In the late 1950s, envious of UEFA’s European Champions Cup and highly confident in the superiority of their own clubs – in the days when South American teams did not have to sell their teenagers to Europe –
